Fake: Hunger in Ukraine
A new theme proving very popular in Russian media is the alleged hungry winter Ukraine is living through. Leading the pack with this fake...
The Debunking Business is Booming
By Jim Kovpak, for StopFake
Some readers are already aware of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s attempt to break into the fake news debunking business. It...
Fake: Ukraine Has No Money for Eurovision 2017
Ukraine has no money to conduct the 2017 Eurovision song contest, Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda declared this week, citing Ukraine’s Culture Minister...
StopFakeNews #124 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes include mendacious Russian claims about Ukrainians’ future visa free travel to the...
Fake: Ukraine to Get Limited EU Visa Free Travel
Russia’s Sputnik Radio featured a story this week claiming that Ukrainians would not get the visa free travel to the EU that Kyiv had...
StopFake #123 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes include mendacious Russian claims about Ukrainians’ future visa free travel to the...
Fake: Ukraine Uses Video Game as Evidence in ICJ Suit against Russia
Russian newspaper Moskovskyi Komsomolets accused Ukraine of presenting a staged video as evidence at a hearing before the UN International Court of Justice in...
Fake: Ukraine Deliberately Shuts off Water Supplies to Occupied Luhansk
While Russian media were busy disseminating fake stories claiming that Ukraine had deliberately cut off water supplies to the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR)...
Fake: Massive European Demonstrations Supporting Donbas
Russian media reported that on March 5 Europeans staged massive demonstrations in support of Donbas, the eastern Ukrainian industrial region currently occupied by Russian-...
Premiere of “Nothing but lies” documentary film in Kyiv
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the fact-checking project StopFake, a documentary film by Tim White's "Nothing but lies: Fighting fake news"...